New Houston Northline Walmart plans to employ 450 associates

New Walmart store to hire 450 full and part-time employees for November opening.

I just heard that Walmart is hiring approximately 450 associates to work at the new Walmart slated to open this November in Houston. To facilitate applications, the retailer has opened a temporary hiring center at 4400 N. Freeway, Suite A100, in Houston.

The hiring center began accepting applications Monday, August 30, and will continue accepting applications from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Interested applicants can also apply online at http://walmartstores.com/Careers/. According to area store manager Stephan Gordon, the store will be hiring both full and part-time associates. “We are excited to add this Walmart to Houston and bring good jobs with career opportunities to the area,”he said.

Gordon said associates are needed to work in all areas of the new store including supervisory positions. Walmart benefits, available to eligible full and part-time associates, include healthcare insurance with no lifetime maximum. Walmart also offers a 401(k) plan and profit sharing contributions, whether an eligible associate contributes or not, store discount cards, stock purchase program and life insurance. Additionally, associates are eligible for company performance-based bonuses.

The majority of associates will begin work in September to help prepare the store for its grand opening in November.

I love how Wally World calls its job offerings “Careers”. That just insults people’s intelligence. Aside from a few key store-level positions, about 445 of those 450 “Associate Careers” are nothing more than minimum wage dead-end jobs.

Give it a rest, Savannah. If you do not like Walmart as an employer, don’t apply there. Look for something more suited to your cleaning skills. Walmart offers steady work, training and decent wages. So you and Steve-O get off your high horses, get back into your Prius and go shop somewhere else. Stop trying to impose your uppity platitudes on the rest of us.

Wal-Mart may not be the most glamorous and rewarding job and the company may be poorly thought of by many Americans including myself but… the truth of the matter is that this store is located in a neighborhood that is to an extent unfortunately reflective of one of the nations greatest failures that being poorly prepared young people, youth that do not have a High School degree or if they do it is a degree that is not backed up by a sound and marketable education and related skills set. With no real skills and no previous work experience Walmart is the best chance they may have to develop a work history they may be able to parley into a better job in few years. They may learn a marketable skill weather it is inventory control or customer service/cashiering. As I see it 450 people will be able to earn a wage sorry though it may be, they will have health insurance even if it is not the best and perhaps some will drop off the public dole. I see this as a win win for the neighborhood and the city. I only wish it was a better company perhaps a manufacturing, technical or construction firm. But it is something and right now America needs every job it can get. So I wish these folks the best and hope they can hone skills that will lead them to better paying and more rewarding jobs as soon as possible. In the mean time good luck to you and your families God bless you may our Lord protect you and your families and reward you for your labors.

Thank ya massah for dem jobs. Good news is when you work for Communist China’s largest outlet for slave made, pollution spewing plastic crapola you can still get the food stamps you’ll need to live through your employment.

Ol’ Sam Walton came on as an aw-shucks, good ol’ Arkansas boy who promoted “made in America” products. Just try and find anything made here in one of their eyesore stores, somewhere amongst exploding tires, poisoned dog food, bad fish, lead painted toys and cadnium bracelets for the little girls.

Hopefully those actual patriots who still have their senses saw in last nights NFL opening game what I saw….right after the poorly sung national anthem (which was right after the pulling of heartstrings over a 5 year neglected New Orleans) many players walked purposely onto the playing field and raised their index finger. We were told the signifigance was that these pampered millionaires are solidly together in their Players Union and the approaching negotiations with the owners.

How nice that the 3% who own 70% of the wealth allow millionares like sports players and screen writers to have what I call their “Designer Unions,” while heaven and earth are moved to make certain the vast majority of the unwashed (who pay more than their share of taxes) will never orgainize.

Wake up! Your grandchildren will have a choice of being waiters, dishwashers, garbage collectors or lawn maintenance workers (if they can wrench these jobs from the illegals purposely let in by republicans). Otherwise, as education is gutted and dumbed down I’d recommend you get a head start and move near a dump where you can teach your kids to spot a not quite rotten yet meal.

Yeah, & how many of these jobs will be full time? DAMN few. They buy 3rd rate products overseas, sell at outrageous mark-ups, shaft employees & tax-payers by not offering insurance, causing part time employees to go to charity hospitals, drive decades old mom & pop business’s out of business by undercutting their prices till the mom & pops close, then RAISING prices. Wal-Mart is as bad as or WORSE than the banks, Wall Street, or any of our current companies that are rightly despised.

Lots of luck chaps. Soon the local knuckle dragging gangs will rob and rape the customers, hang out with their pants around their knees, wearing their do rags and having their jungle music blaring where ever they go.

Michael, these jobs are NOT full time, do NOT provide a living wage, do NOT offer health insurance, are in fact TERRIBLE jobs. I wish none of that were true, but it ALL is. And for the posters calling me loser, I’ll be happy to put my wages & benefits for the last 30 up against yours. In addition, I have EVERY bit as much right as you to post here. To you, I say put away your rose colored glasses, & do a little fact checking.

Get your facts straight folks. 10 of those jobs will be full-time, the remainder will be part time. And the part time jobs will not provide enough working hours to be eligible for benefits. WalMart pays lower wages than other businesses in the neighborhood. When employees are eligible for benefits, they are usually so expensive that employees can’t afford to sign up. Many states are sueing WalMart because their Medicaid rates went up and a huge percentage of those people applying worked at WalMart.

Wal-Mart says that “Wal-Mart’s ‘full time’ status begins at 34 hours per week, not 28, for associates hired after 2002.” Before 2002, however, Wal-Mart’s definition of full-time WAS 28 hours per week, and was raised in 2002 to 34 hours per week in order to raise the bar for healthcare eligibility for their employees – as the raise in hours coincided with the increase in eligibility requirements for healthcare.

The Center for Public Policy Priorities, a non-partisan research center based in Austin, has obtained data on the 20 employers in the state with the largest number of employees whose dependents participate in the Children’s Health Insurance Program. (Employer data for Medicaid are not available.) The data for February 2005 show Wal-Mart at the top of the list, with 2,333 employee families in CHIP, with an estimated 4,363 individual children enrolled.

the Committee on Education and the Workforce estimates that one 200-person Wal-Mart store may result in a cost to federal taxpayers of $420,750 per year – about $2,103 per employee. Specifically, the low wages result in the following additional public costs being passed along to taxpayers:

$36,000 a year for free and reduced lunches for just 50 qualifying Wal-Mart families.

$42,000 a year for Section 8 housing assistance, assuming 3 percent of the store employees qualify for such assistance, at $6,700 per family.

$125,000 a year for federal tax credits and deductions for low-income families, assuming 50 employees are heads of household with a child and 50 are married with two children.

$100,000 a year for the additional Title I expenses, assuming 50 Wal-Mart families qualify with an average of 2 children.

$108,000 a year for the additional federal health care costs of moving into state children’s health insurance programs (S-CHIP), assuming 30 employees with an average of two children qualify.

$9,750 a year for the additional costs for low income energy assistance.

In a recently certified class-action suit in Texas on behalf of more than 200,000 current and former Wal-Mart workers, statisticians estimate that the company underpaid its Texas workers by $150 million over four years by not paying them for the many times they worked during their daily 15-minute breaks. That $150 million estimate does not include other types of unpaid work. The statisticians, who analyzed time records from 12 Wal-Mart stores, found that the Texas employees averaged at least one hour of unpaid work each week from working through breaks.

It’s awesome that so many of the commenters seem informed of Walmart’s business malpractices….How many full time positions are being offered and how many part-time, what is the starting hourly pay…Walmart’s employees are the number one beneficiaries of government welfare because they simply aren’t paid enough.

As the author of this blog I can tell you that the content is never paid for – it is strictly editorial in nature. I bring information about companies that are hiring or firing that I search out on my own. (The Chronicle does not tell me what to run or even offer any leads…I dig for everything myself.) Sometimes information I obtain is from press releases, but it’s most often followed up by an interview. More often then not, I’m calling companies directly just to find out what’s going on with them regarding employment.

I’m not an investigative reporter/journalist but it’s my goal to bring as much information to readers as possible so they can then follow up on their own if the company/position/training etc. seems to be a good fit for them.

I’m happy when the information I provide generates conversation as anyone who comments can only add to what I have provided. (i.e. someone who has worked for the company in the past can provide additional insight that I could never provide). I want readers to get the full picture and reader comments help do that. Thanks!